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Stalemate is a great defensive resource to play for when you are losing and everything seems hopeless. Many games in chess history have been saved by this resource! For players new to chess ...

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 HEY CHESSVICKYFAM, today I am going to demonstrate the steps of playing a good piano. Oohhh!! Is it about chess? Well i am kidding of course its about chess. So let me make a small tour of what ...

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Learning a new opening can be a challenging but rewarding task. Once you have gotten used to a certain variation (e.g. the French defense or the Catalan), it can be difficult to switch to playing...

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Getting bored of playing the same defensive games as black? Do you want to make your game more interesting and worth playing?We recommend you to take a look at the Hyper Accelerated Dragon. For some o...

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ATTACK IS THE SECRET OF defense. defense IS THE PLANNING OF ATTACK.Grasping the art of defense is not at all easy as it seems. It is one of the most difficult tasks to master in chess. Here, it is not...

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LEV POLUGAEVSKY was one of those Grandmasters from a generation of great players who left a huge good mark in the chess world. A player with a unique style, one mostly positional but also aggressive w...

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Chess like life is an existential game.   All living creatures including us as kings are in a continuous game for survival until we’re checkmated and the game is over.  The board...

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defense IS SUPERIOR TO OPULENCE.As the title suggests defending is one of the most greatest and silent attacking skill on the opponent without him noticing it.As a chess player everybody should at lea...

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The grunfeld defense (ECO codes D70- D99) is a chess opening characterized by the moves.It is one of the most popular and renowned defenses for black today against 1.d4, the grunfeld, is employed by b...

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Chess players are unique persons compared to other areas of the society. A chess player, no matter his level, is absorbed by the game and, even when he is not playing, his thoughts are very often in t...

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